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Forensics
Club provides students with the opportunity for Oral Interpretation.
This means that students interpret written literature for an audience
by "performing" or "reciting" it in an original way.
Categories
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Prose--This includes novel exerpts, short stories, essays,
editorials, journals, magazine articles.
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Poetry--Poems from any time period are acceptable.
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Drama--Any dramatic monologue, dialogue or scene my be used.
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Children's Literature--Stories for children ages 3 - 12
may be used.
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Humorous--Anything can be used as long as it's funny.
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Informative--Students research a topic, then teach from
their own scripts.
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Persuasive--Students write and give their own speeches using
researched data.
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Extemporaneous--Given a topic, the student must conduct
research on the spot and give a speech.
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Acting--A schene from a play is memorized and performed
by a group.
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Readers' Theatre--Group performance or interpretation of
a scene using scripts.
Most
interpretations run between 2 and 10 minutes. Written text must
be present, but some portions are memorized. Students are allowed
to compete in two categories at each meet.
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